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Rothmannia longiflora
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Rothmannia longiflora

Rothmannia longiflora a tree to about thirty feet (nine meters) height and native to tropical Africa. It is in the Gardenia Family (Rubiaceae). It is most famed for its white and purple trumpet-shaped flowers, which according to Everard and Morley "may exceed ten inches (25 cm )" in length; possibly the largest tree-borne flower in Africa.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 431527.